Improvement in apparatus for measuring liquids



E. E. P. GLAUSOLLES.

Apparatus for Measuring Liquids, &c..

No.l66,502.

Pat ented Aug. 10, T875.

ATTORNEYS.

Nv PErERS, FHOTO-LITNDGRAPHER. WASHINGION, n. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EMILE .E. P. OLAUSOLLES, OF BARCELONA,SPAIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 66,502, dated August10, 1875 application -filed April 26, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, EMILE EUGENE PIERRE GLAUSOLLES, of Barcelona, Spain,doctor of medicine, have invented certain new and useful improvements inapparatus for measuring liquids for obtaining motive power and forexhausting and forcing air and gases; and I hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the annexed drawings forming part of this specification.

This improved apparatus consists of three or other convenient number ofmetallic or other bellows, formed of annular disks or plates withleather or other joints, which are in communication with the ingress andegress passages form ed in the foundation-plate of a box. The bellowsare united by the arms of a compound lever, which vibrates in aspherical recess in a fixed stand, and the lower end of the axis of thiscompound lever communicates a rotary motion to a circular valve, whichopens and closes the ingress and egress ports, and the upper end of theaxis gives motion to the index-dials or to a rotary shaft fortransmitting power or to pumps. The metallic or other bellows are madeto contain a certain fixed quantity of liquid, and the pressure on theliquid to be measured causes the said bellows to expand and collapsealternately.

Figure l is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan, of my improvedapparatus for measuring liquids; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detachedportions of the same.

a a a are three circular or other shaped bellows, made of annular disksor plates of metal, soldered or otherwise connected together at theiredges. The object in making the bellows of thin disks of metal, insteadof leather or other flexible material, is to render the same moredurable, and prevent the passage of liquids therethrough, the thin metalafiording suflicient elasticity, and yet not being open to theobjections to porous or fibrous material.

All the bellows are attached to the foundation-plate b, in which is theegress-passage b The ingress-passage b is placed by preference in theside of the box t'. The egress-passage munication with the bellows a,and the smaller ports 0 communicate with the egress-passage W. The valved, shown in Figs. 5 and 6, fits on the seating c, and is kept central bythe stud projecting from the valve fitting in a hole in the seating.This valve has a port, 61 which forms the communication between theingresspassage and the bellows, and the port 01 which communicates withthe egress-passage b At the upper end of each bellows is a socket toreceive the balls at the ends of the arms of the compound lever 12,which serves to unite all the bellows. The arms of this compound leverare fixed in the center ball 0 which vibrates in a spherical recess inthe fixed stand f, screwed to the valve-seating or to thefoundation-plate. The ball 0 is fixed to the axle g, at the lower end ofwhich is a pin fitting into a hole in the valve d. The upper end of theaxle 9 takes into the lever h, which is fixed on the axle of a worm,which communicates mo-' tion to the ordinary index-dials. The wholeapparatus is inclosed by the case i, which is secured to thefoundation-plate b.

The mode of operation is as follows: The liquid to be measured issupposed to be entering at A, (see Fig. 2,) and when the liquid hasfilled all the space in the box 6 it passes through the port al which isalways in communication with one of the bellows. The first bellows arethen expanded, and in rising they impart by the compound lever e andspindle g a partial rotary motion to the valve d, which then admits theliquids into the second bellows. When the first bellows are fullyexpanded the second bellows continue to impart the rotary motion to thevalve, which brings the port 01 over the port 0 which communicates withthe first bellows, the fluid from which is thus conveyed through theports 0 and c to the egresspassage b and B. As the second bellowscontinue to expand the third begin to receive their share of fluid, andwhen the third are fully expanded the second begin to discharge, and sothe operations are repeated, the valve 01 continuing to rotate over theseating 0, and opening and closing the ports as required. WVhen thethree bellows have been expanded in succession the spindle 9 will haveperformed one revolution, which is recorded on the usual index-dials,and as each bellows contain a certain fixed quantity of fluid it isevident that the said quantities passin g through the machine will bemeasured and recorded. hen the apparatus is used for obtaining motivepower the liquid or fluid under pressure expands the bellows, and theupper part of the spindle g, in revolving, imparts the requisite rotarymotion to a drivingshaft, and, when the apparatus is applied forexhausting and forcing air and gases, power is applied to the end of theupright spindle 9, thereby actuating the bellows in succession, and thusexhausting or forcing a constant current of air or gas.

Having thus stated the nature of my invention and described the mannerof performing the same, I declare that what I claim herein as new, anddesire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The bellows a, constructed of thin disks of metal, connected at theiredges by solder or otherwise, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the valve d, of the spindle g, centralball-and-socket joint a, lever c, and the bellows a, as and for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand before two subscribingwitnesses.

EMILE EUGENE PIERRE CLAUSOLLES.

Witnesses J NO. WILsoN, J. NORTON.

